title: Human immunodeficiency virus cultured from bone. Implications for transplantation.
abstract: This study demonstrates by a virologic culture method that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) resides in bone. After freezing, some initially positive specimens no longer yielded virus, but those that continued to yield virus were not further altered by subsequent washing, which removed essentially all marrow, or by freeze-drying. The safeguards against potential transmission of HIV by a bone allograft are principally the screening and testing methods previously described, although there may be a further reduction of the remote residual risk by the freezing step in the usual technical sequence for tissue banking by sterile techniques.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101.
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Resnick
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: T I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Malinin
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006678:HIV / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015488:HIV Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013154:Spleen / Q000382:microbiology; D013710:Tendons / Q000382:microbiology; D013977:Tibia / Q000382:microbiology*; D014776:Virus Cultivation
chemical_list: D015488:HIV Antigens